Shrink Your Car to Fit in Small Parking Spaces

10/16/2013 4:42AM

South Korean engineers have developed a car that folds from small to smaller at the touch of a smartphone-app button. The WSJ’s Kurt Achin introduces the Armadillo-T, inspired by the armored, ant-eating animal from South America.

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... I ... new York ... meeting in London in every major city in the mean you drive a car ... you probably have had trouble finding a parking space but no South Korean engineers ... have a solution for that ... part of its fuel efficient and small ... but it gets even smaller ... at the touch of above ... Wall Street Journal skirt Asian takes us to soul and gives us a look at a car ... inspired by an armored ... and eating and ... here's a question ... can you see yourself doing in this ride ... this little all electric to see here is the latest concept car out of South Korea for drivers who wanna go green ... it's called the Armadillo T ... from Christ ... the Korea advanced Institute for Science and technology ... associate professor so nice to use with Christ's Graduate School from green transportation and help design the car ... and his car is designed for urban transport a stand ... on its estimate for Decepticons SSN parking is scarce ... yes so regarding those parking issues ... here's the cool part about the Armadillo T ... the touch of a button he folds into itself ... that's what the Armadillo T has in common with the South American handle he was named after ... the Kentucky itself right into its own shale ... that means it shrinks down from its original size of just under three meters down to almost half of one point six five meters he can fit into a third of the usual parking stay ... the electric motors are in the wheels themselves powered by lithium ion battery upfront ... that's why there's no engine block ... it also runs dead silent on the way ... Kai says this car is all about a new wave of transport called bpm these ... personal mobility vehicles ... with his big bet is warranted ... with them all planted on ... in our ten mins of the mall's current floor or in one operation on his feet as possible ... so that means the weekend is nine and to benefit any kind of ... current orders for ... senior people are employed to stay put if he propose them for ... the week and coach for the speaker we can upgrade is the ... looking to rearview mirrors ... and really how twentieth century ... the Armadillo T is equipped with a range of side cameras that allow the driver to steer ... using a display screen on the debt ... is getting a lot of attention at the two mobility exhibitions like this one ... I really like to design and I like to try driving and ... not really over long distances I when he set for short distances ... as you might've guessed Armadillo T isn't a Mosul car ... he only weighs about four hundred fifty kilograms and one exactly tear up the road and a maximum speed of sixty kilometers an hour ... but with a ten minute fast charge he can run up to hundred kilometers ... maybe nowadays efficiency is the new specie